An astonishing portrait of three generations of the Sackler family by the award-winning author of American bestsellers. The name Sackler recently adorned the walls of many esteemed institutions – the Harvard Art Museum in Boston, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the university library in Oxford, the Louvre in Paris, and many others. The Sacklers are among the wealthiest families in the world and are known for their generous donations to the arts and sciences. The origins of their family fortune long remained shrouded in mystery. However, it has recently come to light that the Sacklers are responsible for the production and sale of OxyContin, a groundbreaking painkiller that was the main cause of the so-called opioid crisis – a widespread epidemic of drug addiction that has claimed nearly half a million lives. The book is a masterwork that exhaustively documents the surprising and captivating reality. It is a portrait of the excesses of America's second gilded age, a study of relentless investigation and impunity, an allegory of shameless greed and indifference to human suffering, upon which billions of dollars of wealth stand.
